Idiosyncratic risk attitudes are usually assumed to be commonly knownand restricted to own payos. However, the alternatives faced by a decisionmaker often involve risks for others' payos as well. Motivated by theimportance of other-regarding preferences in social interactions, this paperexplores...

Since naturally occurring genetic information serves as a valuable input for biotechnological R&D, the private provision of genetic resources could generate income for the protection of biodiversity-rich areas. However, there has been a controversy over whether these potential revenues are...

Religious participation is much more widespread in the United States than in Europe, while Europeans tend to view sects more suspiciously than Americans. We propose an explanation for these patterns without assuming differences in preferences or market fundamentals. Religious markets may have...

We study a strategic model of dynamic trading where agents are asymmetrically informed over common value sources of uncertainty. There is a continuum of buyers and a finite number n of sellers. All buyers are uninformed, while at least one seller is privately informed about the true state of the...

We provide evidence that long-term relationships between trading parties emerge endogenously in the absence of third party enforcement of contracts and are associated with a fundamental change in the nature of market interactions. Without third party enforcement, the vast majority of trades are...

Viele Länder Europas machen sich Sorgen, dass die Krise in der Ukraine ihre eigene Energiesicherheit gefährdet. Josef Braml, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, sieht die Abhängigkeit Europas von Russlands Energielieferungen auch auf absehbare Zeit bestehen bleiben. Die Krise...

Wolfgang von Eichborn, Bundesfinanzhof, schlägt in seinem Kommentar das Konzept der »selbststabilisierenden Anleihen« vor, die die Verantwortung für die Finanzierungs- und Konsolidierungsnotwendigkeiten auch übermäßig verschuldeter Staaten wieder dem Kräftespiel derjenigen aussetzen, die...